K-type star · orange

HR 5161

HR 5161 is an orange in the constellation Canes Venatici 479 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,115 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 76.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 479 years ago.

479 lybrightness mag 5.98G5III

Also catalogued as HD 119458 · HIP 66907

5,115 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
76.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
479 years
at light speed from Earth
0.89×
as hot as the Sun
76.14×
the Sun's light output
0.15
absolute magnitude
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HR 5161K-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
StarHR 502249 ly
StarHR 518060 ly
Star23 CVn66 ly
StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canes Venatici
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canes Venatici

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.